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Marriage? This must be a joke! Natalia Sokoloff has nerves of steel, but when David "Mac" MacAllister proposes marriage, she breaks into a cold sweat. A wife is Mac's best chance at adopting the son he fathered while on active duty in Iraq. And Natalia is his buddy. Besides, she owes him for saving her life during combat.

So how can she refuse? Especially if this is temporarythey'd only need to play house until the adoption is final. Except even that's far too long and too intimate for Natalia. Because there are some things a girl doesn't want even her best friend to know!

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Linda Style's Bio

Linda Style prepared herself for a career in writing by doing all the usual things. She's traveled from Australia to Istanbul, earned degrees in behavioral science and in journalism, completed programs in photography and organizational management, and worked as a photographer, a freelance writer, a caseworker, an investigator, and a management consultant.

An obvious segue? Well, sure! Linda believes it's all been a training ground for what she really wanted to do—write fiction.

To find time to write, Linda would rise at 4:30 a.m. each day to fit in some writing before work, then during lunch she'd edit and revise. Her travels are well documented through dozens of photos, journals, and tapes—because she's always known that, someday, she'd use the information in her books.

To date, she's written four books, which have won or placed in over a dozen RWA contests for unpublished writers. All four novels have reached the finals in the Romance Writers of America's prestigious Golden Heart contest for unpublished novelists.

Linda's debut novel, Her Sister's Secret, a June 2000 Harlequin Superromance, was a 1999 finalist in the single title category of the Golden Heart and also won the grand prize in the Dazzling Hook contest.

Linda's passions (besides her husband, four sons, one daughter-in-law, one almost daughter-in-law, two totally awesome grandchildren, and two stepchildren and their spouses) still include travel and photography. She belongs to several writers' groups, and has left all her earlier careers to write full-time from her home in Gilbert, Arizona.

"I still can't believe that someone actually wants to pay me to do what I love to do. How great is that?" Linda would love to hear from you. You can write her at: P.O. Box 2292, Mesa, Arizona, 952142292, or email her at LindaStyle@lindastyle.com.